Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Robert J. Antony is Associate Professor at the University of Macau. He is the author of several books: Pirates in the Age of Sail (2007); Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China (2003). With Jane Kate Leonard, he co-edited, Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China (2003). Paola Calanca is a member of Écôle Française d’Extrème Orient and affiliated to the Institute for the History of Natural Science in Beijing. Her thesis, “Piraterie et contrebande au Fujian: L’administration chinoise face aux problèmes d’illégalité maritime” (17e- début 19e siécle) was published in 2008. Stefan Eklöf Amirell is Research Fellow at Sweden’s Royal Academy of Letters, working at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm. His books include Pirates in Paradise: A Modern History of Southeast Asia’s Maritime Marauders (2006); Power and Political Culture in Suharto’s Indonesia: The Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) and the Decline of the New Order (1986–98) (2003); and Indonesian Politics in Crisis: The Long Fall of Suharto, 1996–98 (1999). Hoang Anh Tuan is Researcher and Lecturer at the History Department of Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2006 at Leiden University (the Netherlands) with his research on the VOC in Tonkin. In 2007, he published Silk for Silver: Dutch-Vietnamese Relations, 1637–1700. John Kleinen is an anthropologist and historian, and serves as an Associate Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on several aspects of the Vietnamese society and history. His books include Facing the Future, Reviving the Past: A study of Social Change in a Northern Vietnamese Village, 1999 (also in Vietnamese); Lion and Dragon: Four Centuries of Dutch-Vietnamese Relations (2008). In 2001 he edited Vietnamese Society in Transition: The Daily Politics of Reform and Change. 00 PiratesPrelims.indd 9 7/12/10 3:51:33 PM x About the Contributors Gerrit Knaap is specialized in Indonesian history and holds a Ph.D. from Utrecht University. At present he is programme director at the Institute for Netherlands History at The Hague, in charge of the Overseas History Programme. His recent publications include Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-century Makassar (2004), together with Heather Sutherland; Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie/Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company: Deel/Volume II: Java en Madoera/Java and Madura (2007), together with colleagues from Asia Maior. Adrian B. Lapian is Professor of History at Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia. His publications include “Laut Sulawesi: The Celebes Sea, From Center to Peripheries”, Moussons 7 (2003); “Rechtvaardigheid en de Koloniale Oorlogen: Indonesië”, in Madelon de Keizer and Mariska Heijmans-van Bruggen, eds., Onrecht: Oorlog en Rechtvaardigheid in de Twintigste Eeuw (2001); and “Research on Bajau Communities: Maritime People in Southeast Asia”, Asian Research Trends: A Humanities and Social Science Review (1996). Carolin Liss is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia. For her Ph.D. thesis, Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh, 1992–2006: A Prismatic Interpretation of Security, Carolin conducted fieldwork in Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. Her recent publications include “Privatising the Fight against Somali Pirates”, Working Paper 152, Asia Research Centre, November 2008; “Abu Sayyaf and US and Australian Military Intervention in the Southern Philippines”, Austral Policy Forum 07-23A, 29 November 2007; “Southeast Asia’s Maritime Security Dilemma: State or Market?”, Japan Focus, 8 June 2007; and “The Privatization of Maritime Security in Southeast Asia”, in Thomas Jäger and Gerhard Kümmel, (eds.), Private Military and Security Companies (2007). Manon Osseweijer who was trained as an anthropologist, is the Deputy Director at the International Institute for Asian Studies and she co-organized the workshop from which the chapters of this book result. She has published on small-scale fisheries and environmental problems in the coastal zones of Indonesia. Her most recent publication is co-edited The Heart of Borneo (2009). 00 PiratesPrelims.indd 10 7/12/10 3:51:33 PM About the Contributors xi Michael Pearson is Professor Emeritus of history at the University of New South Wales and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of several books on India and the Indian Ocean...